Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] network: Added option to disable NIC option roms

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Gerhard Wiesinger <address@hidden> wrote:
> Option ROM for network interface cards (NICs) can now explicitly disabled
> with romfile=disabled parameter. With hotplugable NICs (currently NE2000,
> PCNET)
> romfile=(empty) didn't work. This patch disables Option ROMs for iPXE for
> alls
> supported NICs (hotplugable and non hotplugable).
>
> Examples with 2 NICs with disabled Option ROM (separated on different lines
> for readability):
> -device rtl8139,mac=1a:46:0b:ca:bc:7c,vlan=0,romfile=disabled
> -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no,vlan=0
> -device pcnet,mac=1a:46:0b:ca:bc:7e,vlan=1,romfile=disabled
> -net tap,ifname=tap1,script=no,downscript=no,vlan=1

Did you consider "no" or "none"?  Those are already used by -net
script=no and -vga none.  I'm afraid we don't have much consistency in
the command-line and adding more variants of basically the same
concept should be avoided when possible.

Stefan